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There is this spectacular rocket failure: https://youtu.be/ycRVAcZC5R4

According to the reports it happened because a technician installed the innertial measurement unit upside down. It was supposedly designed to be impossible to do that, but the technician found a clever way to bend the PCB :)




What I'm surprised by here is that the rocket didn't self destruct as soon as it started tilting - it could have easily flown towards the crowd. Is self destruct not a thing most rockets have?


It’s a race between engineers inventing more and more foolproof devices…


Any time someone designs a fool proof device, someone goes out and designs a better fool.




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